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Originally Posted by melissa.recovering
I'm sorry to hear this. I apologize if I am prying too much, but I truly am curious. How can having SPD affect one's ability to hold down a job? None of these symptoms suggest to me that a job would be difficult to keep, unless a) the job requires frequent socializing, or b) shows coldness/detachment to the extreme
Still though, I am able to be friendly with others, despite my symptoms. I guess there are varying degrees of severity, then? Also, aren't there jobs out there that are more solitary, such as working in a library?
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Hi Melissa,
You're not prying too much. Feel free to PM me if you wish.
I wish could go back in time and pass along some of the feedback and observations I've gotten here; sadly the siblings I would have passed the info along to are deceased. Life was too joyless and they "checked out".
I didn't know what was wrong with us until recently. Then a psychologist with the VA started pinning down the symptoms and tracing them back through the family.
I've requested the MMPI test, but it isn't given at my local hospital. Some believe the test is revealing, some think it's "junk science". I would like to take the thing for my own 2 cents.
One person posted that they don't think I'm schizoid at all. I'm not going to argue, as I don't think anyone has gotten to the root of what did such a number on my family. Schizoid seems like the closest fit at this point. Further therapy will probably reveal the other ingredients in the soup that makes up my psyche.
The bottom line is that I don't want another suicide in my family; I don't want to see any more of my relatives living painful lonely lives, including me.
For that I will dig, take flak, and go to shrinks until the day I fall over from old age -- if that's what it takes to get the facts.
Terri